点太多了 又贵又浪费
“You ordered too much. It's expensive and wasteful.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“- Please serve it quickly. - Sure.”
点 太多了 又贵又浪费
“You ordered too much. It's expensive and wasteful.”
“It's fine. We can take leftovers home.”
“You are spending way too much money and we can't possibly finish all this.”
Chinese dining culture often balances the host's desire to display generosity through abundance against the traditional virtue of avoiding food waste.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
ordered too much
A very common phrase used at restaurants when you feel the table has ordered more food than can be finished.
both expensive and wasteful
Use the '又...又...' construction to connect two parallel negative descriptions when criticizing excessive spending.
Marks the completed action of ordering and emphasizes that an excessive threshold has been reached.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It's just us. Ordering too much would be a waste.”
“I can't overspend or waste money.”
“That would be a waste. It was all good stuff.”